Seems like you're always looking at things through rose-tinted glasses. Like making predictions and straight out assuming that we'll pay a lesser contract termination penalty than Chicago just because we're the Avs. (??)
Or our very problematic player with 6 f***ing years left under contract at over 6M per will get moved for free.
Yea but no. Look how difficult it was to move Vrana with only 1 year left under contract.
You comparing Jakub Vrana to Val Nichushkin is hilarious.
Remember, these are GMs of professional sports clubs. At the end of the day,
winning is all that matters to them. How many pieces of shit are on teams right now and we simply don't know it publicly?
Patrick Kane beat up a f***ing taxi driver and is widely regarded as a piece of shit human being, yet that gets glossed over because he plays hockey quite well.
Ryan O'Reilly drove into a Tim Hortons while drunk and all was forgotten because he plays hockey quite well.
Theo Fleury had someone follow him around every day while with the Rangers because they wanted him on the team so bad and didn't care if he did other shit so long as he stayed on the ice.
Some GM out there will take a chance on Val Nichushkin. This isn't a 3rd/4th line tweener we're talking about. This is a near-PPG two way power forward. Those are rare. Hell, I'm convinced that if the locker room wasn't so pissed, the Avs would bring him back - drug issues be damned.
If he wants to go back to Russia, more power to him. But I am 100% certain there is some GM out there willing to trade for Nichushkin thinking he and his organization can "fix" Val.